Apparatus for the lateral delivery of goods, &amp; c.



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APPARATUS FOR THE LATERAL DELIVERY OF'GOODS, am.

APPLIOAIION FILED D110. 1, 1902. no 10931..

U NITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

PATENT; .QFFICE. v

APPARATUS-FOR THE LATERAL DELIVERY OF GOODS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,580, dated June 2, 1903.

' Application filed December 1, 1902. erial No. 133,505. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH HARTMANN,

.workmaster, a citizenof the German Empire,

residing at Bergisch-Gladbach,in'the Rhineland, Prussia, Germany, have invented a new and. useful Improved Apparatus for the LateralDelivery of Goods from Roller Conveyers and for Stacking Said Goods, of which the following is a specification.

There has been a long-felt want in rollingmills for an arrangement for delivering the rolled products automatically laterally from the roller conveyers, by which the product is carried from the mill. Where trucks and the like have been made use of, an automatic lateral delivery cannot be had, as in most of these cases extra attendance is required and other inconveniences are present which are.

removed by the present invention.

In order to explain the apparatus, an eX- ample from practice is illustrated in the annexed drawings, showing the improved apparatus.

Figure 1 represents an end elevation, partly in section, of my apparatus; 'Fig. 2, a side view, and Fig. 3 a plan. Fig. 4 is a diagram of a modification on a smaller scale.

The rolled product a is carriedby a roller conveyor composed of rollsc andisguided longitudinally by means of the guide-bars b. It thus moves onto the equally-rotary rolls d (1, provided with screw-threads, and is carried against the abutment 6. Being unable to move farther f0rward, the forward thrust against 6 causes the product a to glide laterally along the threads into the hopper f. This operation can also be best demonstrated by the analogy of a screw with nut on it set in motion. If the latter is prevented from taking part in the turning by holding it firm with a key or by hand, a displacement of the nut on the screw will take place. In this case the roller represents the screw and the product the nut. .48 lateral displacement will take place as soon as the product is kept firm-that is tosay, abuts against e. When the product has arrived in the-hopper f, it obtainsthe correct-position on the truck 9 by striking against and rolling down the wall to of the truck. The product can then be removed from the truck for further working. The delivery-guide h effects the equal dividing or stacking of the product on the truck. It is turnable around the pivots 1' up to the positions shown in dotted lines. The adj ustment is eifected by the hand-Wheelj. The latter is keyed onto the vertical shaft k and acts'upon the part It through the beveled wheels Z. vertical shaft k and the pivot m, which latter is cast onto the part h.

With this arrangement the product can .be delivered to the right or to the left, according as the rollers are cut with right or left handed thread. With this apparatus a horizontal as well as an upward or downward displacement can also be effected, according as a horizontal or upwardly and downwardly inclined plane is laterally arranged. In the apparatus shown on drawings a downward method is represented.

The rollers 01 instead of being horizontal can also be inclined at an angle in order to deliver the productfrom an elevated position.

Having now particularly described and ascertainedthe nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. In a conveying apparatus, the combination with a plurality of parallel plain rolls, of a plurality of spirally-grooved rolls, arranged adjacent one end of the first series of rolls, a

hopper arranged adjacent the last-named rolls, and means for rotating both series of rolls simultaneously.

2. In a conveying apparatus, the combination with a plurality of plain rolls, a plurality of spirally-grooved rolls arranged adjacent one end of said plain rolls, of a casing surrounding both sets of rolls, one wall of said casin g being parallel to the said spiral rolls, and acting as anabutment for the material traveling on said rolls, and means for working both series of rolls simultaneously.

3. In a'conveying apparatus, the combina-v tion with a plurality of plain rolls, a plurality of spirally-grooved rolls; of a casing surrounding both series of rolls, ahopper located Of these one each is keyed on the beneath said spiral rolls, and means for sirolls, and an adjustable guide pivotally semultaneously working both series of rolls. cured to said hopper. l0

4. In a conveying apparatus, the combina- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my tion with a plurality of plain rolls, a pluralhand in presence of two witnesses.

ity of spirally-grooved rolls, guides mounted FRIEDRICH HARTMANN.

on said rolls, of a casing enveloping both se- Witnesses:

ries of rolls, a hopper connected to said cas- CARL SCHMITT,

ing and located beneath said spirally-grooved J OH. SOHOLZ. 

